Think a boring diet of grilled chicken and steamed broccoli is the only way to maximize your time pumping iron? Allow Olympic weightlifter Kendrick Farris to prove you wrong. Since 2014, the Louisiana native has followed a vegan diet, and has set records to keep critics quiet.

Farris, who is the only male weightlifter from Team USA to qualify for the Rio Olympics, has moved up a weight class (he now competes in the 94kg class, aka 207 pounds) and claimed an American record after lifting a total 377kg (831 pounds) at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in May since adopting the plant-based diet...

An effective diet will alway be based on one's lifestyle and it's a case to case basis. What will work on you might not work on us so it's also a trial and error kind of thing. Kendrick Farris has proven us that being a plant based athlete is actually better and it worked on him really well! It all depends on the kind of body type that we have and how long are we going to endure the time and effort we exert on working out. By the way, it seems like Kendrick Farris is enjoying being a vegan athlete!